Todd A. Benni

Todd also has extensive experience in providing legal advice and counseling to clients regarding a wide variety of e-commerce and advertising issues, such as CAN-SPAM, COPPA, sweepstakes, websites privacy policies, and terms of use of websites. In addition, Todd has significant corporate experience that he is able to utilize in providing broad based advice and counseling to his clients.

Todd has considerable experience working with clients in the medical device, automotive, consumer products, retail and startup industries.

In addition to his leadership role within the Intellectual Property Department, Todd serves as Chair of McDonald Hopkins' Professional Development Committee. 

Before joining McDonald Hopkins, Todd served as senior managing counsel of IP, advertising and licensing for a Fortune 100 global supplier and retailer of office products and services.

Todd earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1998, where he served as business manager and editor of the Journal of Law and Commerce. He received a B.S. in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1995.

Highlights

• Helped manage the prosecution of thousands of matters for a Fortune 500 company, including complex reissue, enforcement and opinion matters. Assisted in several IP due diligence projects with this client to ensure acquisitions met business objectives.
• Assisted a medical device start-up in developing a robust patent strategy to incentivize investment in start-up to achieve first commercial sale.
• Implemented patent strategies in various consumer product fields, including mining portfolios to expand coverage of commercial products to help ensure market position.
• Developed and implemented IP strategies to help significantly reduce the cost of maintaining a Fortune 100 company’s IP portfolio while maintaining the overall integrity of the IP portfolio.
• Served as in-house attorney for one of his clients providing not only IP related services, but also general corporate counseling.